The Osceola times., 1887-05-14
ABOUT FALSE HAIR.
A Dealer Tells Where 1t Comes From s""
How 1t IL Obtained.

How IL Is ODtaineu.
Nearly all the false hair that Is soid
in this country" said dealer, recent
ly, sis brought from France and Ger
many. 1t is obtained in those couii-
tries from the peasant girls. The Ber-
lin and Paris merchants send their
agents ont through the country dis
tricts. and. whenever one Of these
agents meets lass with fine crop OF
/ hair he Immediately begins TO bargain
with her. Asa rule the peasants fro~
/ so little of the world. and are so utterly
| ignorant Of the value of things, that
they generally sell their hair at the
most ridiculously low prices. IL IS
nothing uncommon to see french
peasant girl dispose Of the most mag.
hihcent .ut of hair a suit that would
seil for setenty-fiye dollars, for a
worthless earring or . string Of bright
/ looking beads. II these merchants
meet girl on the road whose hair att
tracts them, they never give the poor
girl time to think, or opportunity to 90
home and consult her parents, but the
moment she says yes, out come thcir
shears and off goes her magnificent
hair, and the poor childs only
return is worthless trinket. IL
seems sad. but such is life - at
least hair-merchant life, After the
hair has been all collected and brought
into Paris and Berlin, it is then put
through a cleaning process. and assort-
ed and arranged. On all hair as ii
comes from the head, there is, no mat
ter how clean person tries 10 keep
her or himself, more or less dandrutl.
The hair is passed through a sort OF
wire net or chain, the wires OF which
are so close together that the hairs
themselves can scarcely pass through.
You would think this would cut the
hair, but it does not. 1t only gets the
dirt off, and it does so most efiectually.
After the hair is thus thoroughly clean.
ed, ii is assorted in proper colors, quail
tiles and lengths. Then the black hair is
again run over and three more piles
are made of 1.-THE long black hairs,
the medium and the short. The light
hair is similarly assorted. Then the
dealers mix the black and light hairs
together and make from them differ
ent shades. By mixing jet black.
for instance, with a color two
shades lighter than jet black
you get color exactly one
shads lighter, and this is the
rule all through the different combina-
tons of hair colors. A color mixed
with another color that is two shades
lighter than itself will produce a color
one shade lighter, and Il shade that APP
pears to be perfectly natural. If the
hair is mixed with a color that is more
than two shades it will produce a
streaky combination. which is, OF
course, to be avoided; but when the
mixing is properly done not even an
expert can tell the difference between
the real color and the color that is tho
result of this skillful manipulation
The French are the most expert hair
mixers in the world, and many a blonde
or brown suit of halr that looks so per
fectly natural is. in rsality, the product
of two different heads. and all the re-
suit of the ingeniousFrench hair-mixers
What does a head of hair cost? Well,
of course, there is in hair, rs in every
thing else, an immense variety OF
kinds, and consequently an i'm
mense variety of prices. Heads
Of hair can be bought as low as
fifteen dollars. and there are many that
bring seventy-fve dollars. For this
latter price | should say that the very
best suit of hair that can be foufd in
Boston can be purchased. 1t does not
cost woman, or, | should probably
say in order to keep in the fashion, a
Mrs. Lady, as much TO purchase her
hair now rs it did three or four years
= ago. The Mrs. Ladies do not wear
near so much hair now as they did
then, as any one, even Mr.. Gentle
: man, can see by glancing at one OF
their heads. Consequently, while il
,, formerly cost fashionable female
from one hundred to one hundred and
fifty dollars to perfectly adorn hel
head, supposing, of course, that she
had no hair at all to start with, the
same female can now buy the very best
head gear in Boston at from fifty tc
r seventy-iive dollars. Is there much
false hair worn in Boston? Oh, an i'm
mense deal of it. indulge in no exag
geration when ! say that there are not
five women in one hundred who dc
: not wear some false hair. "-Bostor
= HeTdh